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Nordson MEDICAL designs, engineers and manufactures complex devices and components with applications in wound healing, surgical and minimally invasive, fluid management, pulmonology and interventional and structural heart. Our pioneering Advanced Polymers team was the first to manufacture and supply medical balloons to the medical device industry. Nordson MEDICAL works with doctors, start-ups and large medical companies around the world at any point in the product lifecycle, from concept to launch and beyond.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative products from concept to production that provides sustained competitive advantage to Nordson MEDICAL.
• Innovation leader to drive unique innovative solutions and processes.
• Develop and execute unique solutions for complex engineering challenges through Technology Development approx.
• Coordinate cross-functional team member activities to meet specified customer and corporate design, manufacturing, and quality requirements.
• Plans, schedules, and coordinates detailed phases of the engineering work; devise new approaches and performs work effectively and that includes efficiently to include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of standard materials minimizing cost, and difficult coordination requirement ease of manufacturing.
• Displays originality and judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Coordinates appropriate communications with Nordson MEDICAL customers to facilitate transfer of customer requirements and project and approval acceptance.
• Combines broad knowledge of design skills, engineering principles, manufacturing techniques and analytical skills to create new products, and/or improve existing products, which meet or exceed product requirements.
• Refines technical data received from marketing & sales, customers, and manufacturing team members, conducts appropriate evaluation, and creates detailed project scope, schedule, product specifications and risk analysis as per Nordson MEDICAL.
• Directs Coordinates efforts of Nordson MEDICAL. cross-functional team such as sales, marketing, manufacturing, tooling, quality and regulatory which is responsible for all aspects of launching new projects from concept to volume production. Coordinates regular status meetings with Nordson MEDICAL personnel as needed or requested.
• Works on Technology development projects and reports out monthly.
• Actively manages projects, works with the cross-functional team members and with effective communication smoothly accomplishes all project activities. Establishes and maintains project schedules, current vs. baseline. Responsible for on-time launch of assigned projects.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to establish and implement strategies consistent with NPD and organizational growth objectives and core competencies.
• Develop detailed engineering drawings, fixtures and gages for new products using accepted Nordson MEDICAL tools.
• Utilize various prototyping methods for performing evaluation testing of prototypes to prove or disprove established hypotheses.
• Utilize input from all departments from within Nordson MEDICAL in the creation and implementation of Design FMEA, Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA). Assist the manufacturing engineer in the creation of Process FMEA.
• Creates appropriate project plan/ ocumentation to adequately create a Design History Record (DHR) of all projects within the guidelines of Nordson MEDICAL procedures and practices. Oversees the development and maintenance of appropriate work instructions and ISO procedures.
• Develop test protocols for internal or external use; design and build test equipment; and perform design validation resulting in products that meets customer, design and manufacturing requirements.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or a University in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline is required. M.S in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline is desired.
• Minimum of three to five seven to ten. 5 - 7 years' experience is required developing new and innovative concepts for complex parts and/or assemblies.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in general engineering field is required.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in designing and manufacturing plastic injection molded products is required.
• Familiarity with GMP medical design and manufacturing principles is desired.
• Experience in use of one or more of these software tools (i.e. Solid Works, PDMWorks, Solid Edge, MS Project, Project Scheduler, and FEA Software such as COSMOSSW Simulation, Pro-EFlowWorks, and AutoCAD Plastics etc.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of Plastic Injection Mold tooling manufacturing techniques and practices.
• Strong organization skills: ability to multi-task meeting deadlines to ensure superior responsiveness.
• Proven change agent: skill with enabling change, strong influencing abilities particularly with frontline teams.
• Knowledgeable of rapid prototyping methods to evaluate design and process requirements.
• Holds patents and knowledgeable of patenting processes.
• Experience in application of human factor interface design (HFID) in